-
A senior administration lawyer involved in national security issues writes in with the following:
I read the commentary by He Who Must Not Be Named On This Blog on the killing of Aulaqi, and while I unde...
-
Over at Salon.com, He Who Must Not Be Named on This Blog is upset by the fact that what he terms the "the due process-free assassination of U.S. citizens is now reality."
-
I often disagree with Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen, but this column strikes me as right on. Thiessen bewails the lack of serious debate in the Republican primaries on national security issues,...
-
Check out this news story on yesterday's court appearance by Ahmed Warsame. I've hammered on the New York Times editorial page for repeatedly--and erroneously--saying that non-criminal detention takes pl...
-
...and guess what? This post is not about any gross factual errors in either of them concerning the legality of detention. Perhaps that's because neither editorial really deals with the legality of deten...
-
Over at Opinio Juris, Kevin Jon Heller gamely steps up to the plate to defend yesterday's New York Times editorial:
As part of his ongoing war against the New York Times, Ben Wittes has a post today enti...
-
I am not sure how I stumbled into the role of unpaid fact-checker for the New York Times editorial page on matters of law and security. But as long as the Times keeps publishing editorials like this one,...
-
I have a fair bit to say in response to Daphne Eviatar's comments from earlier today concerning my post about yesterday's New York Times editorial. Let me start with a brief comment about Daphne's compla...
-
Daphne Eviatar of Human Rights First sent in the following in response to my post from yesterday contrasting the New York Times editorial and the Washington Post editorial on Buck McKeon's AUMF proposal.
-
Anyone who wants to understand in a nutshell the difference between the New York Times editorial board and the Washington Post editorial board on counter-terrorism issues--and, actually, on a broader arr...
-
...sent this in from Huffington Post:
SHODDY RAT REMOVAL IN DIRKSEN CAFETERIA: WHERE'S THE HOPE AND CHANGE?Amanda Terkel was on the Hill today for, you know, reporting and stuff. While there, she witness...
-
Two quick comments on today's New York Times editorial:
First, the Times begins with a remarkable normative assertion: "In bringing justice to those accused of plotting the Sept.